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1 Jun 2021
Honorary doctor at the Faculty of Social Sciences has passed away
The distinguished socio-legal scholar Thomas Mathiesen died on Saturday, May 29. He was 87 years old.
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7 May 2021
Peter Bergwall is now a Doctor of Sociology of Law
On Friday, May 7, Ph.D. student Peter Bergwall at the Sociology of Law Department successfully defended his doctoral thesis “Exploring paths of justice in the digital healthcare”.
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14 Apr 2021
How economic insecurity hinders the integration of immigrants
Unfamiliarity with the local language and regulations make immigrants vulnerable to over-indebtedness. The condition puts them at risk of social and financial exclusion, which nega...
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23 Mar 2021
Looking back and forward on furthering the rights of children
For 13 years, Sociology of Law Professor Per Wickenberg ran a training programme implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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9 Mar 2021
Imagination and creative navigation simplifies life for Central Asian migrants in Russia
Associate Professor Rustam Urinboyev spent more than five years studying the experiences and life stories of Uzbek migrant workers in Moscow. In the book Migration and Hybrid Polit...
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3 Mar 2021
We need a sociology of algorithms
Increasing digitalisation and computerisation can lead to socio-legal governance problems and a dominating artificial intelligence.
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17 Feb 2021
People with high socio-economic status get more value for their properties when faced with foreclosure
High income and education level, and being married are beneficial if you end up unable to pay your mortgages.
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3 Feb 2021
Will travel bans lead to more internationalized classrooms?
Universities all over the world have closed their campuses and turned to digital teaching solutions. Even though students are stuck at home, the new environment may have advantages...
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29 Jan 2021
Decolonizing Labour Law: A Conversation with Professor Adelle Blackett
At the end of last summer, Amin Parsa and Niklas Selberg interviewed Professor Adelle Blackett about her teaching and research on decolonization of labour law and legal education. ...
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21 Jan 2021
This is the new Head of the Sociology of Law Department
In early December 2020, the Sociology of Law Department confirmed that a new leadership had been elected. Matthias Baier, the Head of Department at the time, had declined to run fo...
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16 Dec 2020
Patrik Olsson globetrots from Peru to Uzbekistan in five days on global conference tour
It may seem as if senior lecturer Patrik Olsson is only doing one of two things this semester: lecturing, or sitting deep under thousands of pages of take-home exams, reading and g...
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24 Nov 2020
Monika Lindbekk editor for special issue on Muslim family law
Monika Lindbekk’s editorship for Brill generated a double special issue of Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, depicting how family law is adjudicated in Mus...
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3 Nov 2020
Child rights and global health interplay in new course
The Special Area Studies course “The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, Children's Rights, and Global Health” starts for the first time on November 5.
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16 Oct 2020
Locked up in lockdown
Since COVID-19 spread to Russia, national authorities have cut off all access to prisons. Based on his recent research, Rustamjon Urinboyev speculates how the everyday lives of tra...
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9 Sep 2020
Sociologists of law investigating migrant worker exploitation in the Nordics
Associate Senior Lecturer Isabel Schoultz and project assistant Heraclitos Muhire at the Sociology of Law Department lead the endeavour they hope will help improve labour market po...
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31 Aug 2020
Similarities between oil drilling and the extraction of personal data
This past spring, Sociology of Law Department postdoc Jannice Käll published a critical study of property control in the online edition of Harvard International Law Journal.
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22 Jul 2020
Håkan Hydén appears in China to speak about digital technology’s effect on law
The Senior Professor featured at the Rule of Law Forum of the 2020 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.
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23 Jun 2020
Culture and corruption in focus at the first Central Asian Law seminar
On June 5, the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University organised the first Central Asian Law project seminar. It featured four Central Asian guest researchers who presented ...
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11 Jun 2020
Sociology of Law Department leads unique effort to facilitate business between EU and Central Asia
A new research project aims to contribute to greater understanding between Central Asian and EU business and legal cultures, and lower the risk of foreign companies becoming involv...